Rafael blog plus life story

Monday, December 26, 2016

The story of my life

WE ARE CANGING THIS BLOG NAME, WE ARE GOING TO CALL IT, OLD-MAN AND RAFAEL. WE WILL CONTINUE TO WRITE SOME OF OUR OWN LIFE STORY, BECAUSE EVEN AN OLD MAN LIFE STORY COULD BE COMPARED TO TODAY'S WAY OF LIFE. AT THE SAME TIME WE WILL TRY TO WRITE A DIARY ABOUT THIS NEW LIFE THAT HAS COME ALONG, AND NOW IS PART OF OUR FAMILY.
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Welcome to our blog, Old-man and Rafael
and this post, the story of my life
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This is the castle in the country that I used to see from a distance, from our family farm everyday of my life. It is a very solid somehow small castle compared to some other castles, but is has a very violent story of its own, as most of the castle do.

The story of my life

Dear readers, this post is the continuation of our last post, a man life journey. So let us continue and let me start telling you my life story. I was born in the late thirties that means that, I was born before World War 2, 1939- 1945, I was born in a rural town of southern Italy, as I have already mentioned at the beginning of this story, my family had a small farm and owned some farm land around the farm, but this farm land that we owned was not enough to earn a living, so we (my family) would also work the land of large land owners who would let us use their land for a price that had to be paid usually with an agreed amount of produce each year; to some of you this way of doing things might seem strange, but, that was normal practice in those days.

Perhaps I need to write this observation here, to understand better the situation about us small farmers, without going in too many details about the past, one has to think that in the past the entire countryside would usually belong to the landlord that the rulers of the day gave the right to run that part of the country, so even when I was young some of these way of living existed, the rich landowner that now replaced the government landlord or the master of that portion of the countryside, anyhow, they would let us use their land for a price. Anyhow talking about the old ways of how these things were done, and talking about the landlords or the masters of the castles that they used to run the countryside, there in Genzano is this castle of Monteserico and I remember that from my family farm I could see this castle far away every day of my life, of course there is also a history about this Monteserico castle, I have written about that in this hub, The castle of, as this castle of Monteserico has plenty of history of its own.

Anyhow, in order to understand how things were done then in the farms, and here I am talking about before and also during World war 2, I need to tell you this; to earn a living in those days was very hard, it was much harder than today, not only for us farmers who were then thought to be in a better position of the rest of the town community, because we were producing something useful for the rest of the community especially in war time when food was hard to come by, we could always find something to eat from the fields, so the rest of the town were influenced by us farmers, so if we were doing well the rest of the town would be doing well too, I believe that here I could add this observation to make you see what I mean; in the simple life of those times, the most important thing that people would aim for was to be able to eat wholesome and simple food every day, if you were able to do that then you were doing well, I hope I have made my point here, there were no luxurious food or things to be had, accept a few times each year, at Christmas and other important events.

Now I need to point out that there was no much money going around in those days and a lot of times we had to exchange produce or things to make ends meet. So, let me tell you a couple of examples how things were done in those days; for example if it happened that we needed a blacksmith to sharpen the tools during the year to work the fields, we would pay the blacksmith with an agreed amount of wheat, since wheat was our main crop and also most people needed wheat to make their own bread during the year; you see in those times, if you had wheat you could take it to the mill to make flour and then make your own bread; therefore by paying work done by wheat was convenient, as it was a two ways solution. It also was done like that because there was no much money around then; you see, even the barbers used to be paid in wheat or some other produce from the farmers. Of course there was some money to do other general smaller services or things, but all those services that would take a long time usually for years were done by these agreements of so much work in exchange of so much produce. Sometimes even small things could be bought by exchanging some produce with some other things.

I know dear readers that what I have said might seem ridiculous today, but this is how life was in those old days. So, I wonder how you the younger generation would feel to live in the old days that I have described above, and be a farmer’s youth working in the farm from a very tender age as I did. Here I would like to call on you my readers to compare what I have said above to today living and let me know if you feel like making a comment. I just wonder how you would feel like to be in a lonely place as I was, where there was not a single electronic device to play with or just listen to; I just wonder how you would feel like and what you would do.

I am saying this because today when I look at the young people most of them walk about with a mobile talking to their friends, or listening to music, or doing whatever they can do with their mobile, the difference in life style is so great that it is hard to believe that so many electronic devises have come out in the last fifty years or so, and they have changed our life style and we are better off today; therefore, I have to ask myself, what the youths of today could have done in my place? But anyhow let us continue to tell you the story of my life and my personal concern’s, in our next post, which we are going to call, some personal concerns.

See you soon.

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Old-man and Rafael
The story of my life
IS TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, some personal concerns
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Some personal links:

Everyone Has a Story to Tell - Goins, Writer ,

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

A man life journey

WE ARE CANGING THIS BLOG NAME, WE ARE GOING TO CALL IT, FOR BABY RAF. WE WILL CONTINUE TO WRITE SOME OF OUR OWN LIFE STORY, BECAUSE EVEN AN OLD LIFE STORY COULD BE COMPARED TO TODAY'S WAY OF LIFE. AT THE SAME TIME WE WILL TRY TO WRITE A DIARY ABOUT THIS NEW LIFE THAT HAS COME ALONG, AND NOW IS PART OF OUR FAMILY.
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Welcome to our blog, FOR BABY RAF
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Story telling; some people are so good at telling you a story that the listener feels as if they see the event in front of their eyes

A man life journey

Dear readers, this post is the continuation of our last post, my life story; and also it is the continuation of our last article called; ‘An old man life story’, but we had to modify its name because every article needs to have a title of its own; having done that now let me welcome you to this article called a man life journey; ‘a man life journey’ is going to be the continuation of the story of my life of course, so you are all invited to read our articles as we have said before and you can browse and read these articles for as long as you like, because that is the reason that I am writing them.

We believe that we can tell you our life story, and we will tell our life story, because every one of us has a story to tell about our own life, we are not the only one to say that as you know, because there are people that are doing this very same thing; so we hope that our life story would be interesting enough for our readers. You see even very simple life stories sometimes could be interesting enough to hear, because they have their own merits, even if it is a simple life story, just like my life story. These are a couple of links that I found on the Internet to check them out and see, what other people think about this life story issues;

You are a storyteller, and you have a story worth telling. - Get Storied, anyhow let us go on with our own life story.

But, I have to say that I am not a scholar or a trained writer, therefore, here I may have some writing concerns because, as we have said already we are writing our own life story, now, because real life stories are usually boring, we hope that somehow we would be able to interest you without boring you too much, because I don’t want to embellish my life story at all if possible, as I am going to write my own life story just the way that I have lived it starting from when I was very young. Therefore, I hope that I would be able to write my life story clear enough for my readers to understand it easily, you see, today there is a great difference in life style, therefore it would be easy to misunderstand the situation, for this reason we need a good description that is able to highlight the difference between how life was then in those old times and how life is now; here I should add that this is very important to note for comparison sake, because this is one of the reason why I am writing my life story, since one would like to note between today life style and the old time life style, anyhow let us start telling you what we are going to tell you in my real life story.

Now, as I have said, I am writing about my life story; so, in order to keep my life story in a chronological order somehow I have to start from the time when I was born, which will be written in this same article here-under, under the subtitle name, the story of my life; but at this point of time, let us talk about how I plan to write my entire life story; you see, at this point of time I plan to write my life story in two parts, one part is going to be mainly about my young life, starting from when I was born, followed by my young life in our family farm in Southern Italy and all those things that were happening in those times in the farm and also in my native town of Genzano di Lucania, which is the town where I was born and our family farm was, of course as we go on telling you everything we can, I am also going to tell you the story or some of the history of my native town, because history of the place where one is born is also important to know; the second part is going to be about my life story in Australia, since I migrated to Australia in my early twenties, and I have lived in Australia ever since.

This second part of my life story will be dealing with lots of things and it will include several articles about buildings, like how DIY brickwork, masonry etc. Since I ended up working in the building industry in Brisbane Australia, while at the same time, I will be also telling you the great differences in buildings that I found between the old continent and Australia for a start; and then I will describe how many different building things were done in those times when I came to Australia and perhaps how these same things have progressed and how I progressed and became a bricklayer during the time that I have been working in Australia, and I have been working as a bricklayer most of my life; and when I was not bricklaying I was doing some other building work as well.

Anyhow, these things that I have mentioned above are the things that I would like to write about in my life story, and now, let us go back and start telling you my life story from the beginning.

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Beginning my life story

Anyhow, let us start from the beginning to tell my life story, you see, this is the story of a simple man life journey, and I would like to point out that this article is only the beginning of an old man life story and there will be several articles written about this story; for this reason I am asking myself which is the best way to write my life story, so that I could interest you my readers to take a trip in the past with me, in the hope that I would be able to show you something that could interest you and you would accompany me happily in my life story journey.

You see, I would like to tell you my own life story for many reasons; because today I could say that I have reached a certain age that makes me an old man, so I wonder what could I show to my readers about my own life story that would make my life story interesting enough to read. Of course I could tell you easily about what my life is like today, which I can say that is not that exciting at all, because of some unfortunate happenings and illness in the family that seems to worry me so much these days; you see, to tell you the truth I am sorry to say that I happen to live with family members that are sick and require lots of attention, because this is not what you readers would like to hear, since telling sad story would only bring sadness to who hears the story; so, it would be better to go back to tell you my life story from the beginning just as it happened in the past with some happy and some not so happy happenings, I suppose it might be better for everybody, if I tell my life story this way.

Now, even though in my life story I have to say that I was struggling most times during my early life, so, it might not be a very happy story to hear for entertainment sake, at the same time I hope that my whole life story could or would be more interesting to hear, if the story that I am going to tell you now has already happened in the past, because even if there are sad stories being told, since they are passed already, they would not seem so sad anymore and they could be easily compared to today’s living to make the story more interesting anyhow; you see, this is what us old people do most of the time, we would like to compare today’s way of life to the ways that we have lived our own life.

Therefore, dear readers, while you are reading my life story try to compare the ways of living of those by gone days with the ways that we are living our lives today, because this would be one of the reasons why I am writing my life story; you see today when I see things done from the younger generation that do not agree with my own views, sometimes I would like to tell them the ways that things were done when I was young, therefore, I would start by saying; when I was young these things were not done this way and keep telling them what we did then. I hope you see what I mean. But now, let me start telling you the story of my life, as much as I can in a chronological way wherever I could.

Anyhow, I believe that this post is becoming too long for the average readers of today, so I will continue to tell you my life story, in our next post called, the story of my life.

See you soon.

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FOR BABY RAF
My life story
IS TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, THE STORY OF MY LIFE
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Some personal links:

Videos of santa songs youtube

Monday, December 5, 2016

Another baby article

Being a baby post, at this time of the year, it is only natural, to link to Christmas songs.

1. www.santagames.net/santa

https://www.youtube.com/user/nurseryrhymesclub

Another baby article

Talking about baby, I should say that since this new baby was born, the entire family has changed for the better. We are all happy that he is growing well, so, there is something more to talk about among ourselves, instead of the old boring things. So, I would like to talk about this baby here again.

Anyhow, in the last few days I have noticed that this site called blogger, which is the site that we are using now for this post, it is not what it used to be, there seem to be some problems here, and therefore I wonder for how long it is going to last the way it is. So, I have decided to post this other post while I can and at the same time upload any new photos in this post.

I start thinking that I may have changed my old blog to this blog for nothing, because it might not last very long as I thought it would, but anyhow, let us write this post and post it before it is too late.

So, in this post I am going to post as many photos as I can of Rafael, so that I can keep the record going. These photos that have been taken for about 2 months.
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Rafael just days old and below Rafael and the doctor

Rafael went shopping and mum bought a guitar for him.

Baby at home on the lounge

The entire family wearing sun glasses

Mum and baby at home taking a photo

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Dad and baby setting in the shade

Hey dad!! keep that cat away from me!

Mother and baby, he is growing okay

When I have more photos will post another post.
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FOR BABY RAF
Another baby article
IS TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, another post
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Some personal links:

Thursday, November 17, 2016

My life story

WE ARE GANGING THIS BLOG NAME, WE ARE GOING TO CALL IT, NEW LIFE NEW HOPE. WE WILL CONTINUE TO WRITE SOME OF OUR OWN VIEWS IN GENERAL, BUT, AT THE SAME TIME WE WILL WRITE A DIARY ABOUT THIS NEW LIFE THAT HAS COME ALONG, AND NOW IS PART OF OUR FAMILY.
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Welcome to my blog, Rafael-M-Baby
and this post, my life story
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Story telling is one of those old skills that old ladies had, they had to tell the stories to the children to keep them quiet and happy. They also used these stories to teach you something new. perhaps also to be street wise, since in their stories there was something to be learned.

My life story

Dear readers, here we are telling you my life story, so, this is the continuation of our previous post, an old man life story.

Anyhow, in our last post I was saying that the old ladies were telling us stories when we were kids; I apologise for not being able to tell you any of those stories that my mother and my grandmother were telling me, they were good stories for us kids, since we kids would hear them many times and still we were interested in them, perhaps we were waiting for the heroes of the stories to do what they had to do to have their ways; but today I have forgotten most of these stories, therefore I am not able to tell you any of them. But anyhow this is not the only reason why I am writing this article; because what I would like to write here in the future is this; I am going to tell you the story of my life as I have said. I know that now you are thinking, what is wrong with me why should I tell you the story of my whole life? Well it is just because I cannot tell you a fairy tale anymore, since today people don’t believe anymore in fairies or fairy tales, and really, I don’t remember most of the tales that I have been told when I was young, so I could not tell you much of a story; therefore, I am going to tell you the story of my life, because that is the only story that I know better than anybody else.

Now that I have decided to tell you my whole life story, starting with this hub called, (An old man life story), which is the name of our last post as well, and it is going to be also the name of my story writings, I have also to say that there are other issues that have prompt to write my life story, the main issues are written here-under.

Firstly, I would like to tell you dear readers that I would like to write this story of to my life, in order that we could compare the ways of living between today and the old-time ways; since I believe that in order to tell a story and make sense to the listener or readers there should also be a purpose for it, so, if we try to compare this old life story to today ways of living, then it may make this story more interesting for everybody.

Having said that, now I wonder what it would be like if one could go back in time like in time travel fictions, how nowadays ways of living would have affected the older generations. You see, I think that generally speaking, in the old days normally time seemed to stand still and very little changes would happen, and if anything did happen it would happen very slowly, except when there were wars or some other violent happenings, like earthquake or diseases that could kill lots of people around; whereas today everything changes very fast even when there are no wars, earthquake or disease; therefore, what could be said that is new today, in a few days may be said to be old. I hope you see what I mean?

Secondly, I am going to tell you about why I feel that I should write this story, and why I believe I have to write it. You see, I feel that every human being has a story to tell, and anyone of us could tell our own story if we attach enough importance to the story that we want to tell. So, to me it happens that I believe that by telling you my life story, not only I become satisfied that I have written my own life story, but I would also feel that I am doing humanity a good service, because something can be learned from my life story. I believe that it is the life duty of any man to try to improve anything during his life if one can, so, let me explain the way I feel about what could or would be the duty of any man. But I believe that I have already done that a few weeks ago in this blog. So, see you in another post called a man life journey.

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Rafael-M-Baby
My life story
IS TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, a man life journey
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Some personal links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Q7XqG6o7k

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

An old man life story

WE ARE GANGING THIS BLOG NAME, WE ARE GOING TO CALL IT, RAFAEL-M- BABY. WE WILL CONTINUE TO WRITE SOME OF OUR OWN VIEWS IN GENERAL, BUT, AT THE SAME TIME WE WILL WRITE A DIARY ABOUT THIS NEW LIFE THAT HAS COME ALONG, AND NOW IS PART OF OUR FAMILY.
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Welcome to our blog, Rafael-M-Baby
and this post, an old man life story
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An old man life story
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An old rocking cradle, where mothers and grandmas used to rock the baby and perhaps sing a lullaby until the baby would fall asleep.
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Life story of forebear

An old man life story

Dear readers, when there is not enough to say about this new born baby, we are going to write a life story of one of his forbear. Because we want this blog to be active enough to be noticed from search engines, So, let me start my life story, which I call an old man life story.

An old man life story

Let me tell you a story and transport you to another place and to another time, at the time when I was a young kid and my mother or my grandma in the evening would tell me a story just to keep me happy and go to bed and sleep.

Oh, my god! What did I say? Tell you fairy tales that the elders of my time were telling me when I was a young kid; no, sorry my dear readers I have made a mistake and I apologize, because you see today I don’t remember much about those stories that the elders of my time were telling me, even though those stories seemed very interesting to us kids then; here I need to tell you that in those times mothers and grandmothers had always a story to tell the kids, it was the only way to keep us kids quiet as there was no TV and most time not even a radio for miles, the only news in those times were in the newspapers, if one could borrow it from somebody that could afford to buy it, the rest of the news were the local news that the people of the town would tell each other, so that they would know what was happening around them, so people would pass them around by word of mouth. Anyhow the stories that these old ladies would tell us were as good as any other story, and if the famous Brothers Grimm had known them they would have written them in their stories book. The Annotated Brothers Grimm : Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm‎

Here I would like to point out that a lot of things have changed since I was a kid, but I still remember lot of things that I would like to tell you, so let me go on. Now that I happen to be talking about the mothers and grandmothers of those times, I would like to add how they worked hard to keep kids quiet in those times, we will come to talk about my life story soon, as soon as I finish telling you this old fact of life; because here I would like to add something else that today does not happen anymore in the western world, I am saying the western world because what these old ladies were doing then might still be done in very backward countries today one can never know; I can just imagine that there might still be a few places where progress as not taken place, and therefore people are still using those skills that their forbears have used for centuries or even thousands of years.

Anyhow let me describe to you what these old ladies did to put a child to sleep, they would take the child in their arms sit on a sturdy chair and sing a lullaby while they were rocking the chair until the child would go to sleep, or do the same thing by putting the child in a rocking cradle and rock the cradle and sing a lullaby, those times were a lot harder than today for young mothers as you can see for yourself, not only they had to look after the child, but they had also wash everything by hand as there were not any washing machine, or any throw away paper devises that would keep the child clean, so, they had to rely or their skills that they had picked up from their elders and work hard to keep things going properly.

Today is a lot easier for a young mother, because of the washing machine and other things that make life less stressful, even singing lullaby is gone out of fashion, perhaps it is because there is so much music songs and everything else around us, so, singing lullaby is out of fashion, and for this reason you cannot hear any mother singing their lullaby to their child in any town, I guess that even in the country outside towns they don’t sing anymore, it is the sign of the time people are not born singers, those young mothers were singing then because they had to, it was their job to keep their children quiet even if their singing was out of tune as long as their child was satisfied. You see, children are attention seeker and they were happy as long as they knew that there was somebody looking after them, and to hear their mother singing to them and rocking them would satisfy them and fall asleep. Anyhow this is how it was done in those old days.

Now let me point out this to you. Today it is a lot easier, because we can replace those lullabies with some real music from professionals, you need only a link and a device that can link to it, you click on this link, and everything is done for you.

I hope this you tube link works for you.

I believe that I have said enough in this article, because we would like to keep them short, since people like them this way.

See you soon, with next post about, my life story.

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Rafael-M-Baby
An old man life story
IS TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, my life story
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Some personal links: